Dad's Anniversary Card to Mum

Here's the card I made for my Dad to give to Mum for their Anniversary! Dad quite likes a funny card!

Supplies:
Image: Recycled from a card!
Tools: XCut heart border punch, cropodile
Embellishments: Red gems, eyelets, bows & glamour dust

Challenges:
Paperplay #37 - Punches & Dies
Moving Along with the Times #116 - Sparkle
One Stitch At A Time #80 - Punch It
The Crafty Pad #139 - Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend

Sweet Little Donkey!

It's my cousin's daughter's first Birthday next week, and I've made this little card for her!

Supplies:
Image: "Sweet Little Donkey" by Meljen's Designs, coloured with Promarkers
Paper: All three papers are from Smirk "Naughty but Nice" pack.
Embellishments: Peel off sentiment, brown ribbon, 3D butterfly from Papermania, gems, punched flower.

Challenges:
Crafty Emma's Store Challenge #30 - Children
One Stop Craft Challenge #125 - Spots & Dots
Sketch Saturday #149 - Sketch
Secret Crafter Saturday #128 - Butterflies
Allsorts Challenge #97 - Blooming Blossoms
Dream Valley #4 - Things with Wings
Paper Sundaes #63 - Spring Blossoms
The Crafty Pad #115 - Flowers
Paperplay Challenges #14 - Critters Galore
C.R.A.F.T Challenge #97 - Animals/Pets
By the Cute & Girly April - Cute & girly

Ginny with Flowers!

Supplies:

Image: "Ginny with Flowers" from Pink Gem Designs coloured with Promarkers.

Paper: Freebies from a magazine

Embellishments: Chequered ribbon, peel off sentiment

Challenges:

Do it With Digis #6 - Children themed cards

Digi Doodle's Best #51 - Anything Goes
Paper Cutz Challenge #83 - Anything Goes
2 Sisters Challenge #31 - Furry Friends
The Crafty Pad #113 - Use a digi
Simon Says Challenge - Happy Birthday
Crafty Sentiments - Animals

New Baby!

Supplies:

Image: "Sleeping Infant" from Digi Doodle Shop coloured with Promarkers. I won a gift voucher in a challenge and this is one of the images I chose!

Papers: The yellow gingham paper is from Papermania Capsule Collection Lemon Sorbet, and the bluey-green swirly paper is from Papermania Henbury Lane.

Embellishments: Buttons & bow from Papermania Capsule Collection Lemon Sorbet, the baby feet charm is a new edition to my stash, from MadCowBeads. The sentiment is a rub-on.

Challenges:

I Love Promarkers #56 - Babies

Digital Tuesday #101 - Welcome Little One
2 Sisters #30 - Oh Baby
Dream Valley #2 - New Beginnings
The Crafty Pad #112 - Buttons
Sketch & Stash #57 - Sketch
Creatalicious Challenge #20 - Two Tone

Wishing you the Fairy best!

Wow two cards posted in one day! For some reason at the moment I find sketch challenges seem to have me stumped! I spend so long trying to find bits and pieces to fit that I never get anywhere! So here's a sketch-less creation!

Supplies:

Image/Sentiment: "Fairy 1" from Digi Doodle Shop (that I won in the Forever Friends Monthly Challenge), coloured with Promarkers, "Wishing you the fairy best" sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Paper: Both the floral and pink polkadot papers are from the Pink Petticoat, Vintage Rose Collection. The edges are chalked.

Embellishments: Handmade pink bow tied with Reflecta silvery thread!

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft #132 - Pink Polkadots

Crafty Cardmakers #41 - Fabric
Incy Wincy Designs #84 - Pastels
Fab N Funky #63 - Make it Girly
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge #10 - Fly with us
The Crafty Pad #11 - Use a ribbon

Distressing Christmas!

No no, I don't mean Christmas is distressing! I love Christmas - favourite time of year - friends & family, Christmas markets, music, decorations, presents and fun!

Everything here is from the Papermania Henbury Lane Poinsettia Ultimate A4 Collector's Pack (a brilliant set if you get a chance to get one). I've used an A5 card, and inked the edges with lovely pinky-red pigment ink, and distressed the edges of the backing paper.

Challenges I'm entering:

Quixotic Paperie October Challenge - Christmas is coming

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #88 - Ink & Edge distressing

Corrosive Challenge #86 - No white paper

The Crafty Pad #93 - Distressed or torn edges

Sparkling Christmas!

Cor Blimey!! I've been trying to upload this one picture for almost an hour with the silly new uploader thingy which just kept stopping/locking my internet explorer up!! Almost gave up, but thought I'd try one more time with this image! (There's a close up of the decoupage but I might try to upload it later)
Anyway, here's another easel card I've made using the Papermania Henbury Lane Poinsettia ultimate decoupage pack. 3 different papers from that collection and the prop-up strip is also a die-cut from the pack. I've added a load of Glamour Dust just to finish it off!

Challenges I'm entering:
CPS #186 - Sketch
The Crafty Pad #90 - Christmas Sparkle
Secret Crafter Saturday #103 - Easel cards
PaperCutz Challenge #61 - 3 patterned papers

Anniversary in Pink!

A card I made for my cousin & his wife for their Wedding Anniversary. I've used some Kate Knight flower paper that came free with an issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft, and have added some pink plain paper to make my little flower frame and the punched edge. I've used a small rectangle of pink shiny Gemstones paper to mount my peel-off onto. Then some embellishing with gems & glamour dust glitter!!

Challenges I'm entering:
Creative Card Crew #57 - Sparkle & Shine
Moving Along with the Times #60 - Glitter
Paperplay #33 - Pink to make the boys wink
Easy Craft Projects #19 - Girly
Challenge Up Your Life #26 - Celebrations
The Crafty Pad #84 - Glitz & Glitter

My first CC Design card - Puppy Kiki

This is one of the stamped images I've been sent in a blog candy, and I've finally got round to colouring and using it! Obviously I've used my Promarkers (hehe). The heart backing paper is from the Dovecraft Glamour Print pack. The little tag was from a magazine freebie pack, and I've added a peel off and an eyelet to it, with some little flowers & gems to finish!

Challenges I'm entering:

Donna's Den #2 - sketch

A Spoon Full of Sugar #110 - Animal Crackers

Totally Papercrafts #23 - One for the girlies

Pile it On #26 - My Favourite Things (Dogs have to be one of them!)

The Crafty Pad #78 - Animal Fun

Postal Theme for Quirky Crafts

I found this cute Penny Black stamped image from a RAK, and thought it would suit a thank you card! I think it's called "Team Effort"!

I've coloured the image using my new Promarkers!! (Woohoo) The two designer papers were free with magazines, and the ribbon is from Hobbycraft. I added three punched flowers, with gems and three dots of pearlescent glue at the bottom.

Challenges I'm entering:

Quirky Crafts #27 - Going Postal

Crafty Ann's Challenge #14 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge #51 - Sketch

KLSNS Challenge #29 - 1 ribbon, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments

Secret Crafter Saturday #82 - 1 image, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments

Pile it On Challenge #18 - Cute & Cuddly

The Crafty Pad #70 - Use a punch

One Stitch At A Time #12 - Going Dotty

Passion for Promarkers - Gratitude

Another card made using an image coloured with my new Promarkers!! The stamp is from Papermania's Stamping Chic-Party set (which I won from Katrina in her blog candy a while back).

The green paper is from Papermania's Capsule Collection,, as is the bow. I've used a Sakura Souffle pen to write "Thank You" on the little sentiment topper.

Challenges I'm entering:

Passion for Promarkers #50 - Gratitude

A Spoon Full of Sugar #102 - Furry Friends

The Crafty Pad #69 - Ribbons

New Arrival!

Here's another baby card (a vet nurse friend is due in August, but I felt like making a card now - not sure if it's a boy or a girl).

The cute rocking horse image is from Pollycrafts and is perfect for a baby card!

I've used spotted paper  from the Papermania Sweet Nothings paperpack, and my nesties (lots of nesties in this card)!! 2 brads, some ribbon and a peel off!

Challenges I'm entering:
Caardvarks - New Baby
Crafty Angels #30 - My Favourite Things (at the moment these new nesties)
Cupcake Craft #86 - Childhood Memories (this reminds of the rocking horse my Grandad made me when I was little - it's up in the loft possibly waiting for a new jockey!)
Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie
Cooking it up with Katie #15 - 1 digi image, a splash of purple & 3 of something (I have 3 nestie doubles)
Sketch Saturday #98 - Sketch
The Crafty Pad #66 - Some rainbow colours
Creative Belli #89 - Die cute shapes

The result of quite an unproductive day!

Well, Mum's boss would like 2 cards, the same but in different colours for her two grandaughters who are turning 3 (not sure when)!

I'm rubbish at little kids cards, as I don't know many that young and the only ones I've made were for boys (which is easy at that age and harder as they get older)!

I gave up, in frustration as it wasn't "enjoyable" any more....will try again tomorrow and hope that inspiration comes.

Instead I made this card, for someone my age and did what I wanted to do!

I believe the stamped image is called "Delights" from Penny Black - another of the little gifts from Lisa that I have picked out to get creative!
The brown stripy paper is from a Daisy and Dandelion paper pack, and the pink polkadot paper is from a magazine freebie. The sentiment is from the new Docrafts Creativity mag CD-ROM, with an X-Cut butterfly.
Challenges I'm entering:
Sketch & Stamp #19 - lovely sketch (I have turned it around)
Allsorts Challenge #35 - Brown & Pink
The Crafty Pad #54 - Animals
A Spoon Full of Sugar #87 - Lots of Layering
Papertake Weekly - Pretty In Pink